Daily Archives: February 11, 2019
The dawn of digital age parenting: Should parents be worried?
The key is for parents and educators to encourage healthy internet and digital media practices. Parents must also create a safe space for children to freely talk about their experience with digital media.
https://indianexpress.com/…/dawn-of-digital-age-parenting-s…
Opinion | Constituency-level child health map a first step
It’s time India’s development indicators moved beyond the current abstract administrative zones into the realm of electoral performance evaluation. Improving the well-being of India’s children is a starting point.
https://www.livemint.com/…/opinion-constituency-level-child…
Polio vaccine shortages pose a great risk to children, even if India is ‘polio free’
Polio vaccine shortages pose a great risk to children, even if India is ‘polio free’.
https://scroll.in/…/polio-vaccine-shortages-pose-a-great-ri…
Girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK to protect them from sexual harassment, rape
Breast-ironing, considered a traditional measure for protecting girls from unwanted male attention, has been reported as 1 of 5 global under-reported crimes relating to gender-based violence… A call to families, communities and governments to collectively commit to stamping out this practise. #GBV
https://www.indiatoday.in/…/breast-ironing-uk-africa-gender…
“Most child care homes have no child protection policy”, shows study – Times of India
“Most child care homes have no child protection policy”, shows study surveying 9589 children homes across the country.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/articles…/67714529.cms
16-Year-Old Boy Designs Drone to Detect & Destroy Landmines
A drone that can destroy landmines – designed by a 16 year old boy.
The future of education, according to experts at Davos
Why education matters – opinions of world leaders at the World Economic Forum at Davos #WEF2019
https://www.weforum.org/…/top-quotes-from-davos-on-the-fut…/
Government Cuts Funding To National Crèche Scheme, Crippling Lifeline for Poor Working Mothers
What about access to child care for working mothers from the lower socio-economic strata?
Meet the Ex-IPS Officer Helping Small Town Kids Crack IIT Without Spending a Bomb!
Children shouldn’t be a vehicle for our ambitions. They should be a vehicle for their own aspiration. Not everyone wants to become a doctor, engineer, or pilot.”
The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm
“Poverty and caste discrimination mean that children in Sagar Gram are being groomed by their own families for abuse.”
Almost A Third Of Human Trafficking Victims Are Children: UN Report
The ”Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018” from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) draws on information from 142 countries, examining trafficking trends and patterns. A third of #HumanTraffickingvictims are children.
These Gully Girls From Delhi Are Rapping For Safe Public Spaces
“A group of 11 girls from this slum resettlement colony in Delhi are narrating their stories — through the powerful medium of rap.” #gullygirl
Happy Makar Sankranti
Delhi Mohalla Playschools: “Earlier Children Didn’t Want To Come, Now They Don’t Want To Go Back”
“Mohalla playschool-oasis in the middle of a desert.”
2018 was hell for children
“We live in a world where children are bombed. Where they are made to fight. Where they are attacked as they travel to school. Where families are torn apart and children are forced to face the world alone. And where those inflicting the suffering often go unpunished. How much longer are we prepared to let children suffer from war and conflict?” #nocountryforchildren #endviolencenotcildhood
More than 14 per cent villages in India don’t have any school, shows govt data
“Over 14 per cent of villages in India don’t have schools, while as many as 10 states in the country have over 15 per cent such villages, shows the latest data available with the Rural Development Ministry.”
How state apathy is forcing 12-yr-old pregnant rape survivor in TN to deliver her baby
“Even as the police shamed the minor for the pregnancy, the judiciary took weeks to give its verdict on the abortion – but it was too late.”
https://www.thenewsminute.com/…/how-state-apathy-forcing-12…
India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight
“The problems of violence against women and child exploitation are inextricably linked. Around 240 million Indian women were married before the age of 18, according to the BBC. Nirbhaya triggered a national conversation over the need to change attitudes toward both rape and child abuse.”
https://abcnews.go.com/…/indias-twin-taboos-sexual-a…/story…
When we put children in prison we condemn them to fail | Sophie Trevitt
” …there is something fundamentally broken with a criminal justice system that catches children and spits adults out into the prison system. The fact that it feels normal – even inevitable – to many of these young people that at some point they’ll move up the road to the “big house” is surely one of the clearest indications that we’ve failed these children.”#noprisonforchildren
https://www.theguardian.com/…/when-we-put-children-in-priso…
Brave, Brilliant, Innovative: 10 Amazing Kids Who Made News in 2018 For The Right Reasons!
A throwback at the youngest champions of 2018
https://www.thebetterindia.com/…/india-children-brave-insp…/
Children’s Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2018
The perfect reading list for cuddle-weather. Children’s publishers vote for their favorite children’s books of 2018.
Why stories matter for children’s learning
Why stories matter for children to learn.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling
The forgotten virtuoso of children’s storytelling.
https://www.newyorker.com/…/jim-copp-the-forgotten-virtuoso…
This 25-YO Report by The ‘People’s Scientist’ is Exactly What School Education Needs Today
“The hardship starts right at home when straight from bed the child is pulled out and got ready for school even before his faculties are awake. He or she is groomed and stuffed into a uniform and packed off with a loaded bag on her back. School bag has become an inevitable burden for the child. I am now pleading for (the) abolition of the school bag by an ordinance. If necessary, I have investigated and found that an average child carries strapped to his back like a pack mule, not less than 6-8 kg. Of books, notebooks and other paraphernalia of modern education in addition to (the) lunch box and water bottle. More children on account of this daily burden develop a stoop and hang their arms forward like a Chimpanzee while walking and, I know some cases of serious spinal injuries of children too.” Going back to the words of RK Narayanin light of the (now 25 years old) school bag debate.
Rohingya facing ‘lost generation’ of children out of school
“Ban on formal schooling, poor resources leave children of minority without basic education.” #nocountryforrefugees
https://www.aljazeera.com/…/rohingya-facing-lost-generation…
This Seven Year Old Girl Took Her Father To Police Station For Not Building A Toilet
The seven-year-old who took her father to the police station for not building a toilet.
India has one-third of world’s stunted children: Global nutrition report
“With 46.6 million children who are stunted, India tops the list of countries followed by Nigeria (13.9 million) and Pakistan (10.7 million)” – The Global Nutrition Report 2018.
The darkness below the lights
“70 per cent of the children in Sivakasi, working long shifts under hellish conditions for beggarly wages, are girls in pigtails.”
Teen activist tells world leaders they’re ‘behaving like children’ over climate change
When a 15 year old climate change activist took over the UN Climate Change Summit. “For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.”
#stopclimatechange #UNClimateChange2018
https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/teen-activist-tells-world-leaders…
Blamed For Their Parents’ Poverty, 80% Of Marginalised Indian Children Experience Corporal Punishment In School
“The fear and stress associated with corporal punishment can create “school-phobia”, leading to increased dropouts, low-retention rates and poor academic scores, significantly impacting on education outcomes. Children who have experienced such abuse are also more likely to display criminal behaviour, commit violent crimes as adults and suffer from substance abuse.”
Constitution Day 2018: Introduce your kids to these books
Books that will help your children understand how the Constitution of India was framed and what it stands for.
‘When you rescue a trafficked child it’s like saving a life’
“The window available to identify and assist the huge number of trafficked children passing through Old Delhi station is fleeting. Yet, as India ramps up rescue efforts, there is real progress.”
‘I started taking pictures when I was four’
A seven year old Nigerian on mastering the camera.
The next time children need bedtime stories, they can watch astronauts reading to them from space
The next time children need bedtime stories, they can watch astronauts reading to them from space. #storytimefromspace
https://scroll.in/…/the-next-time-children-need-bedtime-sto…